Transitions and Learning through the Lifecourse (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Ecclestone, Kathryn; Hughes, Martin; Biesta, Gert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Transition' has numerous everyday and conceptual meanings yet, while certain transitions are unsettling and difficult for some people, risk, challenge and even difficulty might also be important factors in successful transitions for others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135270988
• Artikelnr.: 38259042

Autorenporträt

Kathryn Ecclestone is Professor of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK. Gert Biesta is Professor of Education at the Stirling Institute of Education, University of Stirling, UK. Martin Hughes is Professor of Education at the University of Bristol, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

@contents: Selected Contents: List of tables and figures List of
contributors Foreword by John Field Acknowledgements 1. Transitions in the
lifecourse: the role of identity, agency and structure Kathryn Ecclestone,
Gert Biesta and Martin Hughes 2. The daily transition between home and
school Martin Hughes, Pamela Greenhough, Wan Ching Yee and Jane Andrews 3.
Transgression for transition? White urban middle class families making and
managing 'against the grain' school choices David James and Phoebe Beedell
4. Reading and writing the self as a college student: fluidity and
ambivalence across contexts Candice Satchwell and Roz Ivanic 5. Managing
transitions in skills for life Mary Hamilton 6. The transition from
vocational education and training to higher education: a successful
pathway? Michael Hoelscher, Geoff Hayward, Hubert Ertl and Harriet
Dunbar-Goddet 7. Disabled students and transitions in higher education
Elisabet Weedon and Sheila Riddell 8. Rethinking 'failed transitions' to
higher education Jocey Quinn 9. Time in learning transitions through the
lifecourse: a feminist perspective Helen Colley 10. Working as belonging:
the management of personal and collective identities Alan Felstead, Dan
Bishop, Alison Fuller, Nick Jewson, Lorna Unwin and Kostantinos Kakavelakis
11. Adults learning in and through the workplace Karen Evans and Edmund
Waite 12. Older workers' transitions in work-related learning, careers and
identities Jenny Bimrose and Alan Brown 13. Managing and supporting the
vulnerable self Kathryn Ecclestone Index